Upper Endo after PH

did you get a copy of the report from his ph probe? make sure and ask for a copy of the graph, not just the doctors report—if you don’t ask specifically for the graph, all you will get is a copy of the doc’s report.

if you haven’t gotten the report back, did the doc tell you that the ph probe was normal, or are you just going off of what you saw on the monitor yourself while the test was being done? sylvia had 97 episodes of reflux when she had her ph probe done—but i sure never saw that many just by looking at the monitor. more signifigant then the number of episodes she had was the fact that she had a number of prolonged episodes—i think anything that lasts over 7 minutes is considered prolonged. i never noticed a prolonged episode when i watched the monitor. her longest episode was 44 minutes long. it was during the night and she slept right through it. sometimes while i watched the monitor i could see that she was dropping into acid levels and she didn’t even flinche—like it didn’t even bother her—in fact, it seems like she seemed to do better than usual while the probe was in. we had to stay at the hospital because we were out of town, so maybe there was enought to distract her. it turned out her esophagus was getting ulcerated at only 8 months—so it is amazing that she didn’t even act like she noticed when she was refluxing acid into her very raw esophagus. but, like the doctor pointed out to me, it was all she had ever known.

Hi i am the mum to 2 refluxers one being 9yr old and the other nearly 5yr old they both girls. My eldest daughter wasn’t diagnosed until she was 7yrs old and like one of the ladies on here she also didn’t flinch and her acid levels were as low as 2 she was constantly at 4 over night but when she drunk and hate they went as low as 2. She had endoscopy which showed damage so they did the fundo on her just waiting for her to go to have another barium meal now to see if it has worked as she still clearing her throat.